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Yale SOM Alumni Advisory Board

The Alumni Advisory Board is comprised of alumni who advise the dean and the school’s senior leadership on how to advance the values and mission of the school throughout the broader Yale alumni community.

Chair

Jill Govan Bauman ’87
CEO Emeritus and Co-Founder, Social Benefit 
Imagine L.A.

Vice Chair

Victor Padilla-Taylor ’15
Director of Mentor, Advisor, and Partner Networks
Tsai CITY
Yale University

Secretary

Vivian Li ’13 MAM
Founding Partner of Beijing DRGs Tech Co., Ltd.
Director of Yale Healthcare Club of China

Directors at large                                                                                                 

Bukky Akomolafe ’14
Country Manager
Travelstart

Joseph Brandifino ’18
Director, Production Security & Intelligence
Netflix

Matthew J. Broder ’81 B.A., ’87
Vice President, Public Affairs
Financial Accounting Foundation

Fay Chen ’08
Executive Director
Morgan Stanley

Richard Dietrich ’97
President
Dietrich American Foundation

Claudia S. Gourdon ’78
Senior Vice President
M&T Bank

Todd Jorgenson ’20
Founder and Owner
East Valley Implant & Periodontal Center

Jonathan Kim ’00 
Senior Vice President
Zanbato Securities, LLC

Dorothy Liu ’92 
Founder & Principal
Resonant Strategies, LLC

Tony Lynn ’14
Global Program Lead
Meta

Paige MacLean ’98
Independent Philanthropic Advisor; Lecturer in the Practice of Management and Fellow, Program on Social Enterprise, Innovation, and Impact
Yale School of Management

Gilbert Santa Maria ’91
Partner
LSM Ventures, LLC

Chetan Parekh ’06
Vice President & General Manager
Procter & Gamble

Lee Race ’93
Director
Berns Communications Group

Meelendra Singh ’20 MAM 
Senior Product Manager, Consumables
Amazon

Preeti Sinha ’97 MPPM
Executive Secretary
United Nations Capital Development Fund

Jessica Strauss ’09
Manager
Government of Canada

Pascal Su ’22
Principal
Medtronic

Stuart Tarmy ’87
Global Director
Financial Services Industry Solutions for Aerospike

Student Representatives

1st year – Cinthya Garibay ’24

Ex Officio Members

Kerwin K. Charles
Indra K. Nooyi Dean & Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management
Yale School of Management

Joel A. Getz
Deputy Dean for Alumni, Development, and Special Initiatives
Yale School of Management

Courtney Lightfoot
Managing Director, Alumni Relations
Yale School of Management

YAA Delegates

Ex Officio: 

Jill Govan Bauman ’87
CEO Emeritus and Co-Founder, Social Benefit 
Imagine L.A.

Appointed:

Peter Shi ’23 MMS

Maya Chitra Mylavarapu,’11 MBA

Xiran Du ’12 MBA   

Ernesto Mendez Chiari ’19 MAM

Victoria Pham ’16 MBA

Raymond Chang ’96 MBA 

Alumni Fund Chair

Rebecca Vitas Schamis ’00
General Manager
Theodore’s Books

Have a question or interested in volunteering – or just want to share your perspectives? We want to hear from you! Feel free to contact the Yale SOM Alumni Advisory Board at ysomaab@gmail.com